• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Editing HD in SD timelime

  Posted by Tim Allison on September 13, 2007 at 7:17 pm

  I want to bring HD footage into an SD time line in order to “pan and scan” around the higher resolution image. I thought you could do this in FCP, but so far, I haven’t figured out how.

  I shot video on a Sony HDV camera, but ingested it via the component connectors through a Kona 3 card. I chose DVCProHD 1080 as the new codec. I want to edit this into a SD 8-bit uncompressed time line. When I bring the HD footage into the preview window, the picture is too big to fit into the window. That’s what I want and expected. However, when I moved it over to the program window, it downsized to regular 4:3 video.

  Does any of this make sense, and if it does, how can I accomplish what I want to?

  Tim Allison replied 18 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Bogie

  September 13, 2007 at 7:55 pm

  What ahppens when you open the motion tab for the clip in the timeline?
  FCP (almost) always scales media to fit the timeline specs.

  bogiesan
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  Tim Allison

  September 14, 2007 at 12:06 pm

  Bogie,

  That got me where I needed to be. I was able to scale the video back up to where I wanted it in the “motion” tab. Thanks.

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